Missing Review: The Clean House

Saw this play at the Woolly Mammoth Theater last weekend. It's an interesting play, although in the end I don't think it quite works. The transition from farce to melodrama is a bit quick, and the reconciliations are a bit too easy. I also don't get how the housekeeper's quest for the "perfect joke" plot fits into the estranged couple-love triangle plot; I'm not sure what the author thinks the "joke" is, at the end--life, or death, or both? That's a really cryptic sentence. I owe the blog a better review, but I'm not sure I have the energy to write it today.